*****Born and raised in the Bay Area since 2018, Underbelly is now expanding to NYC!*****
Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down™ is a non-verbal, somatic journeying practice (via rest and embodied movement) immersed in music for a slower body. It is a response to the loss of slowness and spaciousness in our dominant culture which survives on speed, keeping problematic, oppressive, and destructive systems in place at the cost of our well-being and planetary health. It's time to dismantle the hurry and reclaim our slow in a fast and overwhelming world.
We prioritize and center nervous system (co)regulation, emotional digestion, nourishment, boredom, living in the questions, complexity, rest, subtlety, listening, communion, devotion, and attuned relationship over modernity’s urgency, linearity, transaction, instant gratification, extremes, consumerism, and incessant stimulation. This practice doesn't impose or instruct with authority, but gives space, freedom and safety to rest in our own unstructured being without constant intrusion. We learn to lovingly hold ourselves exactly as we are, soften into feeling, relax into trust, honor our rhythms and needs, and follow our organic unfolding through listening and yielding vs. pushing and controlling.
Here, we open to our innate, and perhaps quieter intelligence without always being told what to do or how to be "right." Instead of overly prescribing and defining, we let space be the teacher as we lean back into the mystery, the essential, the emergent and reconnect with what has been here all along. In the age of empire, division, dissociation, screens and excess may we continue to nurture the connective tissue between us and strengthen the foundational fabric of our humanity and greater ecosystem.
Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture, and sink into a slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, and honest for you in every moment.
***This experience is not performative/postured/appropriated spirituality, nor a workshop, movement method or quintessential ecstatic dance or contact improv jam. It is not a quick fix or the next dopamine hit. It is not guided from certainty or giving solutions. It's a kindred community that values generous collaboration, energetic sensitivity, self and collective inquiry, exploring relational dynamics, nuance, and being in process. Underbelly is a trauma informed space.
***Every Underbelly experience varies depending on what is alive in the group field at that given time:
Schedule:
See current schedule/get tickets here
Join our Whatsapp and/or mailing list to stay in the loop!
***Please note:
1) Underbelly Bay Area will pause at the start of 2025....new Underbelly team in training and we'll start as soon as we are ready.
2) NYC and Zoom Underbelly have already begun.
Logistics:
Please read What to Expect before attending!
About the Creator:
Amy Rogg (she/her) is an activator and nurturer of the human spirit. She is half Taiwanese/half white of Eastern European-Jewish descent, born in Denver Colorado and raised mostly in the Bay Area. She is the conduit, steward, and facilitator of Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down™. Amy’s approach isn't to fix, control or push, but to heart-fully and maternally tend to the ever-changing human condition as we relate to each other & the planet. Her medicine is in the creation of atmosphere, being led by the moment, sensing group energy fields, conversing with the nervous system, and cultivating loving, intentional space for life’s vital intelligence to do the work it already knows how to do. Amy has a B.A. in television/film production and studied acting/improv in Los Angeles. She has led yoga (E-RYT 500) and meditation for over a decade, is a certified herbalist, and has been facilitating/engaging in somatic and relational movement practices since 2012. She has re-located from the Bay Area to New York City.
Some of her inspirations: Nature/the Wild, Hakomi, GAGA, Continuum, The Artist's Way, Movement Liberation, Elizabeth Gilbert, Gabor Maté, Sarah Blondin, Stephen Jenkinson, Jacob Collier, Jonna Jinton, Paul Bergner, Heather Luna, Anna Halprin, Resmaa Menakem, Esther Perel, Jillian Turecki, Bill Plotkin, Sophie Strand, Marc-André Leclerc (in spirit), Jeong Kwan, Yat Malmgren, Sanford Meisner, Improvisational Theater, David Whyte, Qi Gong, Yoga, Butoh, Contact Improvisation/Underscore, Fusion/Microfusion, Blindfolded Contact, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Dancing Freedom, 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, romantic relationships, and her parents (mama in spirit).
Thank You's: (to the people/places that have been instrumental to the spirit, birth and life of Underbelly!)
Ashley Apple, Jan Verweij, Geo Morjane, Jackie Cheng, Michael Ducott, Derek van der Schroeff, Little Boxes Theater, Ellen Webb Studio, West Coast Arts, Kathyrn Devaney and the Berkeley Alembic, Tyler Alterman, Evan Kelso, Brandon Lee, Adam Chacksfield, Eva Smith, Shane Dyer, Shannon Sahaja, Kelsey Wunderle, Jordan Parker, Ching-I Chang, and all Underbelly collaborators/volunteers/musicians over the years!
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Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down™ is a non-verbal, somatic journeying practice (via rest and embodied movement) immersed in music for a slower body. It is a response to the loss of slowness and spaciousness in our dominant culture which survives on speed, keeping problematic, oppressive, and destructive systems in place at the cost of our well-being and planetary health. It's time to dismantle the hurry and reclaim our slow in a fast and overwhelming world.
We prioritize and center nervous system (co)regulation, emotional digestion, nourishment, boredom, living in the questions, complexity, rest, subtlety, listening, communion, devotion, and attuned relationship over modernity’s urgency, linearity, transaction, instant gratification, extremes, consumerism, and incessant stimulation. This practice doesn't impose or instruct with authority, but gives space, freedom and safety to rest in our own unstructured being without constant intrusion. We learn to lovingly hold ourselves exactly as we are, soften into feeling, relax into trust, honor our rhythms and needs, and follow our organic unfolding through listening and yielding vs. pushing and controlling.
Here, we open to our innate, and perhaps quieter intelligence without always being told what to do or how to be "right." Instead of overly prescribing and defining, we let space be the teacher as we lean back into the mystery, the essential, the emergent and reconnect with what has been here all along. In the age of empire, division, dissociation, screens and excess may we continue to nurture the connective tissue between us and strengthen the foundational fabric of our humanity and greater ecosystem.
Voyage beneath the surface of our fast culture, and sink into a slow sanctuary for unearthing what is alive, tender, and honest for you in every moment.
***This experience is not performative/postured/appropriated spirituality, nor a workshop, movement method or quintessential ecstatic dance or contact improv jam. It is not a quick fix or the next dopamine hit. It is not guided from certainty or giving solutions. It's a kindred community that values generous collaboration, energetic sensitivity, self and collective inquiry, exploring relational dynamics, nuance, and being in process. Underbelly is a trauma informed space.
***Every Underbelly experience varies depending on what is alive in the group field at that given time:
- Movement forms are welcome (authentic/personal/formless/sensory/somatic/intuitive movement, movement with others etc).
- Meditative forms are welcome (resting, pausing, stillness, being-ness, witnessing, observing, writing, drawing, doing nothing etc).
- Participants may explore being in their own space/solo.
- Participants may explore being in proximal space (being near each other, without physical contact). This gives us time to feel what is energetically alive in the spaces between us and listen to subtler notes of interaction without rushing into habits.
- Participants may eventually explore consensual, mindful physical contact.
- Music: emotional, soulful, slow, spacious, deep, symphonic, film scores, meditative, ambient, experimental, nature sounds, silent, and live.
- All are welcome. No prior experience or preconceived notions necessary, you'll absorb and discover as you go.
Schedule:
See current schedule/get tickets here
Join our Whatsapp and/or mailing list to stay in the loop!
***Please note:
1) Underbelly Bay Area will pause at the start of 2025....new Underbelly team in training and we'll start as soon as we are ready.
2) NYC and Zoom Underbelly have already begun.
Logistics:
Please read What to Expect before attending!
About the Creator:
Amy Rogg (she/her) is an activator and nurturer of the human spirit. She is half Taiwanese/half white of Eastern European-Jewish descent, born in Denver Colorado and raised mostly in the Bay Area. She is the conduit, steward, and facilitator of Underbelly: The Art of Slowing Down™. Amy’s approach isn't to fix, control or push, but to heart-fully and maternally tend to the ever-changing human condition as we relate to each other & the planet. Her medicine is in the creation of atmosphere, being led by the moment, sensing group energy fields, conversing with the nervous system, and cultivating loving, intentional space for life’s vital intelligence to do the work it already knows how to do. Amy has a B.A. in television/film production and studied acting/improv in Los Angeles. She has led yoga (E-RYT 500) and meditation for over a decade, is a certified herbalist, and has been facilitating/engaging in somatic and relational movement practices since 2012. She has re-located from the Bay Area to New York City.
Some of her inspirations: Nature/the Wild, Hakomi, GAGA, Continuum, The Artist's Way, Movement Liberation, Elizabeth Gilbert, Gabor Maté, Sarah Blondin, Stephen Jenkinson, Jacob Collier, Jonna Jinton, Paul Bergner, Heather Luna, Anna Halprin, Resmaa Menakem, Esther Perel, Jillian Turecki, Bill Plotkin, Sophie Strand, Marc-André Leclerc (in spirit), Jeong Kwan, Yat Malmgren, Sanford Meisner, Improvisational Theater, David Whyte, Qi Gong, Yoga, Butoh, Contact Improvisation/Underscore, Fusion/Microfusion, Blindfolded Contact, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Dancing Freedom, 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, romantic relationships, and her parents (mama in spirit).
Thank You's: (to the people/places that have been instrumental to the spirit, birth and life of Underbelly!)
Ashley Apple, Jan Verweij, Geo Morjane, Jackie Cheng, Michael Ducott, Derek van der Schroeff, Little Boxes Theater, Ellen Webb Studio, West Coast Arts, Kathyrn Devaney and the Berkeley Alembic, Tyler Alterman, Evan Kelso, Brandon Lee, Adam Chacksfield, Eva Smith, Shane Dyer, Shannon Sahaja, Kelsey Wunderle, Jordan Parker, Ching-I Chang, and all Underbelly collaborators/volunteers/musicians over the years!
Whatsapp group